Letters -- Published Aug. 15, 2013

I would like to clear up a few things mentioned in the Aug. 9 letter, "Farmers being left high and dry," wherein the writer attempts to justify the twin tunnels as a measure to re-establish water to exporters.

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Posted Aug. 15, 2013 at 12:01 AM

Posted Aug. 15, 2013 at 12:01 AM

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I would like to clear up a few things mentioned in the Aug. 9 letter, "Farmers being left high and dry," wherein the writer attempts to justify the twin tunnels as a measure to re-establish water to exporters.

After the two-year drought in 2007-08, the year 2009 began with the projects informing their highest-priority contractor there was insufficient water in storage to provide it with water, and the projects claimed they did not have enough storage to meet minimum outflow and cold water needs for fish.

The year 2012 was a below normal year and the first half of 2013 was extremely dry conditions.

This summer again, the projects had insufficient water for Delta standards and upstream cold-water fishery needs.

Thus, after a two-year drought and after a half-year drought, the export projects went "bankrupt" and were incapable of meeting the minimal water quality standards for the protection of fish.

Tunnels that can take Sacramento River water before it passes through the Delta will provide zero additional storage carryover for dry times and do nothing to address this periodic inability to meet Delta water quality standards.

There ain't no water.

If you cannot meet minimal fishery standards for fish after only a half-year of drought, how on Earth can the fisheries ever recover?

Exporters fantasize about those halcyon days when they took all the water needed for fish and other water right holders because they simply cannot accept that their supply is erratic, unreliable and insufficient.

John Herrick

Stockton

Everything seems to be connected to freedom of speech and civil rights. It is my right to trash someone's reputation and tell lies, and this is OK. Children have no respect for the feelings of others, bully classmates, and in their minds, that this is their right.

Does this come from the parents? I think a great amount of blame should be placed on the parents. They set the pattern of behavior of their children.

I think there should be some recourse for the victim and Lodi Unified to correct this kind of behavior and let bullies know this is not acceptable in a civilized society. What tools does Lodi Unified have to put a stop to this once and for all? How could someone feel that this is acceptable?

It's going to be interesting to see how this is going to be addressed.

Recently the news has focused on racism and namely the George Zimmerman case in Florida. After the FBI was sent to Florida to investigate Zimmerman and try to turn this tragic story into racism, Zimmerman was found not guilty.

Now as I read Blount's column, I was saddened. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and numerous rappers are not afraid to call white people nasty names. Sharpton was shown on TV recently calling white people names while at an event.

In all fairness, if black people are called the N-word and are highly offended, then the Al Sharptons who call themselves ministers and black rappers should refrain from directing racist words at the white population.

If Blount is going to write about Eagles football player Riley Cooper using the N-word, then the next fair article would be to write about all those black leaders and rappers who feel free to call white people all sorts of names.

Fairness is recognized by all people, and focusing on the N-word and not the names whites are called is just telling one side of a story.